The City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire ("Portsmouth" or “the City”) is embarking on an initiative to replace locally hosted applications supporting its Finance and Payroll operations. The primary objective of the project will be to provide the City with a fully integrated system that will allow the City to deliver outstanding service to the citizens of Portsmouth and support the highest level of financial management. This initiative will promote and aid in the transformation and standardization of City administrative processes and centralize and standardize financial data storage. This Request for Proposals ("RFP") is the first step in a complex initiative to provide the framework within which to streamline municipal finance and payroll processes. Accordingly, the City is soliciting information and pricing for a cloud-based core finance and payroll administrative system software as a service (SaaS) solution and associated implementation services.